//------------------------------// // It Begins // Story: Going to Ponyville // by Lordtootinpootin //------------------------------// Hey, Trever here, and today I'm going to share with you my attempt at trying to enter the colorful world of Equestria! Before we do that though, I've gotta tell you about my life n' stuff. Ya know, exposition, that fun thing. Where do I begin? Well, I'm currently 18 years of age, and about to graduate highschool. I've got long dark brown hair that curls at the end. I'm kinda prissy when it comes to my hair, I just love it so much. I'm about 5'10, got thin, wire frame glasses, and I'm pretty bashful when I meet new people too, but I'm the type that if you get to know em, you can't get em to shut up. I'm also living with my dad in a condominium. It's actually not that bad. Two beds, two baths, and even a little office between the master bedroom and the living room where I keep my computer and my dad keeps his printer. My dad's been kind of a financial wreck ever since he broke up with his last girlfriend, but he's been doing kind of better. I usually hang out alone in my room playing on my laptop. It's a cozy little place. Upon entering, you're first greeted with my dresser drawer being on the opposite end of the room. It's rather long, and covers most of the wall. On top of it I've got an assortment of stuffed animals and whatever 3DS games I'm interested in atm. To the left of it, what's left of the wall that isn't covered is my bed. You'll always find my laptop on one of the two pillows at the end of the bed. Just above my bed is that famous poster of Farrah Fawcett, you know the one. The rest of my room is covered in an assortment of posters from things like Pokemon, The Legend of Zelda, and of course, My Little Pony. So yea, I guess you'd like to know my ingenious plan for entering Ponyville now huh? This day began like any other really. I was sitting down, reading probably one of the worst stories ever written on my laptop. My dad just got home from work and brought in a new TV for my room. "So... why did you go and get me a new TV?" I asked my dad in both confusion and maybe a little excitement. It wasn't anything spectacular, just a really large, blocky TV. "So what, I can't just do nice things for my son?" He asks me with a hint of sarcasm in his voice. "Yea but it's not my birthday or anything." It's not that I'm ungrateful, just curious. "Alright then, let's just wait another 300 days for your 19th birthday." He scoffed at me as he began to pick the TV up and out of my room. He's got a pretty strong build, no surprise he could pick up such a hefty TV by himself. "Alright, fair enough." I sigh as I knock off a few stuffed animals from my dresser drawer and help my dad place the TV in my room. I wonder if I could... Nah that's stupid... Me and my dad both say our goodbyes as he exits his room. I begin to hook up my TV so that I could play my games on it. I've also got a cable connecting it to my laptop so I could watch streams and the like on a better screen. "I can't wait to watch the new episodes on this thing!" I squeal to myself in excitement. I stare at the TV, somewhat blankly for a moment, seeing my own reflection. While staring at the screen, I feel this eerie presence looming from behind. I see a sudden flash behind me in the reflection, like something large and white just jolted behind me. I could even feel the wind moving as I witnessed this. I quickly turn around only to see nothing there. Am I seeing things? I must be going crazy... I look back at the TV and lay one hand on it. "Man would it be cool to visit Equestria..." I whisper to myself as I gently lay my head on the screen, thinking nothing but thoughts about My Little Pony... maybe if I tried hard enough, I'd end up there. I'm insane. What am I even doing? I just kinda sit there for a while with my head against the screen and... nothing. "This is frustrating," I said in... uh... frustration? "First I'm seeing things, now I'm going crazy. I mean 'Going To Ponyville', how ridiculous is that?" I've always had a bit of an anger issue, and this time I started banging my head against the TV. Each hit against my head sends a jolt to my brain. I'm probably making a stupid decision but I'll figure that out later. Stupid stupid STUPID! Why am I so FUCKING STUPID!? Starting to feel relieved of my anger, I give the TV one last hit with my head before the glass shatters. I fall over with my back on the floor, making the shards on the back of my head dig deeper into my skull. Sparks from the TV fly near my face, barely grazing past my cheek "I'm such... a fucking... idiot..." I utter to myself before losing consciousness, everything fades to black. "Ugh... where am I?" I utter as I open my eyes, looking across this... room. Where these my thoughts, or was I actually saying this? It doesn't seem to matter now, priorities first, figure out where I am. I was in a dark room, pitch black. There was a single light, shining like a spotlight right on top of me, yet I couldn't find a source. I put my hands in front of me, at least it felt like it, but I couldn't see them. I looked down and couldn't see my legs. Just the end of the spotlight. The light that didn't seem to have a beginning. I looked around, searching, seeing if I could find anything. Suddenly I saw something, or maybe someone is more accurate. It was a pony, one of the main 6. We all know her as AppleJack, but at the time I had no idea what I was starring at. She began to move, running circles around me before she turned around and bucked the air. Apples and buckets started to form near her, the apples falling in the buckets. She picked them up, carried them somewhere and vanished. I couldn't think of her name for whatever reason, and just kept looking around, seeing if I could find something that could actually help me. It was somepony! Another figured appeared, I bet you could guess witch one it is, but I sure can't. This one was wearing glasses, neatly stitching a cloth. She noticed me, and gently sat her glasses down on what appeared to be nothing, and gave me a seductive wink as she flipped her gorgeous main before vanishing just as the other one did. If you couldn't guess, it was Rarity. I still couldn't figure out why I didn't know their names. Their actions and looks seemed so very familiar to me, but something just wasn't clicking. I went through this with all of the main characters. Fluttershy was snuggling her animals, Rainbow Dash was zipping around, doing circles around me, Pinkie kept bouncing all over the place while doing cartwheels and hand stands, then lastly Twilight was reading a book before noticing me, blushing, then vanished like the rest of them. "Did I do something wrong? It's been so long since I used this spell... aw crap I gave him amnesia didn't I?" Uttered a familiar female voice that echoed in a godly tone. "What's that? Who's there? Where am I?" I started to ask in confusion, hoping the goddess (or whatever it was) could hear me and respond. "Me, I can't tell you who I am yet and or where you are." The voice answered calmly, before the echoing sounds of pages flipping in a book could be heard from a distance. "Alright then, what am I doing here?" I pressed on, hoping to gather some information as to what the fuck is going on. "I-I can't tell you that either." The voice said, sounding a bit more worried. The sound of flipping pages got more aggressive before it suddenly stopped, accompanied with another shortly lived moment of silence. "Well I can't completely fix my screw up," explained the voice, "the best I can do is show you more ponies, and hope you can recognize one." "Why is it so important that I recognize one of them?" I asked, not given an answer. I saw more ponies present themselves, each of them to no avail... except one. I'm sure you'll be able to guess it almost immediately, but it took me a while before I caught on to who it was. This pony was... different. She stood out more than any of the other ones I saw. She was wearing her signature cap n' cape combo she usually dawns before a show. Fireworks blazing, sparks flying, the scene was spectacular. Slowly, as I peered closer toward the sparks flying right at me, I got it. It was Trixie Lulamoon. Just as it hit me, the entire room turned white, and a pitch black figure appeared behind Trixie, stopping the sparks. It was a monstrous being of what seemed to resemble an alicorn, only showing from the lower torso and up. She turned around and cowered at the giant creature that emerged before her. It began to spread its enormous wings that seemed like they were about to envelope her, and she looked terrified about it. "Trixie!" I screamed at the top of my lungs as I run to her, pushing her out of harm's way. The monster engulfs me within its wings instead, and everything goes back to black...